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Mobile Phone Recycling Success: Earth Day in Olathe Kansas

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James Echols, TLC and Cells for Cells founders Jason Clements and Aaron Randel

Earth Day 2009 in Olathe, Kansas was a mobile phone recycling success.   Earth Day host Farmers Insurance along with Commerce Bank (both Cells for Cells partners) and with the public participation, filled the recycling bin with 117 old mobile phones.  On top of the beautiful day, Cells for Cells was able to keep all of those phones out of the trash and out of the landfill.

iPod Touch

The iPod Touch giveaway was the major attraction of the day.  James Echols, Street Outreach Specialist at TLC in Olathe, Kansas walked away with one of the coolest gadgets on the market today.  TLC was founded by the Johnson County Young Matrons in 1972 to fulfill an unmet need in our community, a need for an emergency shelter for abused and neglected children from infancy through age 18.

Cancer Treatment Costs

Cells for Cells is strong advocate of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  Money raised through Cells for Cells mobile phone recycling programs goes to help families battling cancer.  In Cells for Cells first two year, $20,000 has been raised for cancer treatment costs.  Money goes directly to the Patient Financial Aid Fund of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and is used for to provide financial assistance for medicines, drugs, blood screening, transfusion, X-rays, transportation costs, co-pay assistance and cancer treatment costs.

Donate Cell Phones

If your company would like to get involved with Cells for Cells, please go to the Cells for Cells “Get Involved” page.  You’ll be able to see what other companies throughout the country donate cell phones to Cells for Cells.

Recycle Cell Phones at Earth Day Olathe Kansas

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iPod Touch

Cells for Cells will be giving away a brand new iPod Touch at the Farmers Earth Day event April 22 from 9 am to 4 pm. (Farmers Insurance Parking Lot at 106th and Ridgeview in Olathe, KS).

Just bring in your old cell phones and for every cell phone donated, Cells for Cells will give you a numbered ticket. At 4pm, we’ll draw one ticket out and award the iPod Touch to the bearer of the matching numbered ticket. You must be present to win.

Proceeds from recycling cell phones go to fund the Extreme Medical Bill Makeover program.  (If you know a family that is battling cancer that desperately needs help paying their medical bills for cancer care, send them to the April’s Medical Bill Makeover page.)

And while you are there, you can bring any to recycle:

  • Computer monitors $5 each and TV’s 10$ each to recycle
  • Printers, fax, fans, sat dish, microwaves, toaster ovens
  • Lumber, plywood, sheetrock, roofing material, air cond., gently used carpet, cabinet hardware, plumbing fixtures
  • Used eye glasses
  • Recycle Cell Phones / Recycle Mobile Phones (of course, drop all cell phones off at the Cells for Cells booth)
  • Gently used children’s books, balls, games
  • Shred confidential docs with Cintas Shredding
  • Paper, Plastic, aluminum
  • …and any other materials that fall into those general categories

Green it Up and Spread the word,